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Observation Field Guide Total Lunar Eclipse OBSERVATION FIELD GUIDE FOR the TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE OF FEBRUARY 21th, 2008 PREPARED BY ALBERTO MARTOS AND MARIA CECILIA SCALIA TRANSLATED BY MANUEL CASTILLO [Page intentionally left blank] USE OF THIS OBSERVATION FIELD GUIDE This Field Guide has been designed to follow all the phenomena expected to happen during the observation of the eclipse event. With this guide we try to present a variety of observation activities to those amateurs who answered our invitation to observe coordinately the Total Lunar Eclipse of February 21th, 2008. For this purpose, the guide puts forward all the practical information required to perform the activities proposed in the Manual for the Observation, available only in Spanish in http://www.cielosur.com/eclipse-luna- febrero20y21-2008-guia-observacion.php. Here, all the descriptive information has been scrapped in order to produce a handy operational resource. With this idea in mind, all the information has been combined following the eclipse timeline. Thus, those observers interested in taking part in all the activities must follow all the timeline steps to cover sequentially all the observation events. In order to reference activities that are very different, some steps have been unified or mixed. Those observers interested only in some of the activities can follow the timeline skipping the steps that are not applicable. In order to discriminate the different activites, each step is referenced with their associated activity number. A priori, this Field Guide is addressed to observers familiarized with the phenomena, with the astronomical equipment and its operation and with the associated problems. However, we believe that the Manual for the Observation can be used by everybody interested, as a help to understand in detail the contents of this Observation Field Guide. Following, the content of the eight proposed activities is compiled together with the required table of data. The same order, table and figure numbers used in the Manual for the Observation has been maintained here. The table XVI shows the whole timeline of the activities to be performed in a chronological way. Therefore, they are mixed. It can convince someone without experience, despite that the activities are not exceptionally difficult (appart from monitoring the Lunar Transient Phenomena), they involve certain degree of discipline and serious work during a extended time periode. As in other real time tasks, both aspects are present, high dynamic and stressed moments (parcial eclipse phases) and quiet and relaxed moments (eclipse totality). It must be considered in order to don’t miss anything previously intended. ADDITIONAL NOTE ON TIMING: In all the steps of the activities, a blank rectangle has been introduced to write in the measured times. It is recommended to use a GPS as a time reference provider for the Universal Time. So, all the observers can be synchronised within one second. If a chronometer is used, please, verify that it is synchronised within one second with a GPS or your national broadcasted time signals. It is quite difficult to record the time of an event during its telescopic observation. In order to deal with this inconvenient, it is recommended to use a voice recorder analogic or digital (PC, movile, etc). Shortly before the event, a sound mark with the identification and the time of the event to come is recorded. In the exact moment of the event, another sound mark is recorded. Later, the interval between the two marks can be measured with an accuracy better than 1 second. A chronometer with alarm is recommended also to have some device to warning that a specific observation moment is coming up. PROPOSED ACTIVITIES 1st activity: Timing of the ocultation of Regulus. NOTE: Only for SouthAmerica. TABLE IX REGULUS OCULTATION VISIBILITY FROM SOUTH AMERICA Ocult. Regulus Emers. Regulus City T. U. Elev. T. U. Elev. Asunción (Guatemala) - - - - Asunción (Forguay) 22:22:15 0,3º 23:21:00 13º Bogotá - - - - Brasilia 22:13:45 9,6º 23:18:00 24º Buenos Aires 22:43:30 1,5º 23:29:30 12º Caracas - - - - Kingston - - - - La Habana - - - - La Paz 22:09:30 -10º 23:05:00 12º Lima - - - - Managua - - - - México - - - - MonteVIDEO 22:46:15 4º 23:29:45 12º Panamá - - - - Puerto Príncipe - - - - Quito - - - - San José of Costa Rica - - - - San Juan of Pto. Rico - - - - San Salvador - - - - Santiago of Chile 22:35:50 -9,5º 19:22:30 0,1º Santo Domingo - - - - Tegucigalpa - - - - 2nd activity: Lunar Paralax measurement. TABLE X LUNAR HEIGHT DURING THE LUNAR PARALAX MEASUREMENT Asunción (Guatemala) 13,6º La Paz 28,0º San José Costa Rica 19,1º Asunción (Forguay) 32,6º Lima 21,4º San Juan Puerto Rico 37,4º Bogotá 28,3º Managua 17,5º San Salvador 14,8º Brasilia 45,5 México 06,1º Santiago 18,4º Buenos Aires 26,7º MonteVIDEO 27,6º S. Domingo 33,8º Caracas 36,3º Panamá 23,6º Tegucigalpa 16,8º Kingston 27,1º Puerto Príncipe 31,4º La Habana 22,1º Quito 23,0º 3rd activity: Video Sequence 4th activity: Timing of the Eclipse Contacts TABLE IV TIMING OF THE ECLIPSE CONTACTS Contact Universal Time First Penumbra Contact 00:36:18 First Umbra Contact 01:43:00 Start of Totality 03:00:48 Eclipse Maximum 03:25:42 End of Totality 03:50:36 Last Umbra Contact 05:08:24 Lastst Penumbra Contact 06:15:18 TABLE XI DANJON SCALE Category Lunar Aspect 0 Very Dark. Nearly invisible after the start of totality. 1 Presents a gray or brown colour with very few visible features. 2 Presents a red-brown colour, with the borders brigther than the center 3 Presents a brick red colour witha yellowish border. 4 Presents a brilliant orange colour with a possible bluish border. 5th activity: Timing the Lunar features inmersión on the Earth Shadow TABLE XII IMMERSION AND EMERSION OF LUNAR FEATURES IN THE EARTH SHADOW Immersion Name Emersion Name 01:48 Grimaldi 04:06 Grimaldi 01:49 Aristarchus 04:07 Billy 01:54 Kepler 04:07 Tycho 01:56 Billy 04:09 Campanus 02:00 PYTHEAS 04:19 Kepler 02:02 Copernicus 04:22 Aristarchus 02:03 Timocharis 04:27 Copernicus 02:05 Plato 04:30 Pytheas 02:11 Campanus 04:36 Timocharis 02:14 Aristoteles 04:42 Dionysius 02:15 Eudoxus 04:42 Manilius 02:16 Manilius 04:44 Plato 02:20 Menelaus 04:46 Menelaus 02:24 Dionysius 04:47 Goclenius 02:24 Plinius 04:49 Plinius 02:27 Tycho 04:51 Eudoxus 02:34 Proclus 04:52 Aristoteles 02:38 Taruntius 04:53 Langrenus 02:42 Goclenius 04:55 Taruntius 02:48 Langrenus 04:59 Proclus 6th activity: Timing of ocultation of stars by the Moon TABLE XIII OCULTATION OF STARS BY THE MOON MADRID BUENOS AIRES U.T. Nº - Star Mag O/E D U.T Nº - Star Mag O/E D 01:59:30 1-GSC 840 185 8,6 O 1 02:19:15 1-GSC 840 185 8,6 E 1 02:26:10 2-GSC 833 1091 10 O 1 03:00:30 3-GSC 840 963 10 E 1 03:02:15 4-GSC 840 869 9,5 E 1 03:08:30 5-GSC 840 944 10 E 1 03:27:10 2-GSC 833 1091 10 E 1 03:30:30 6-GSC 837 442 9,9 O 1 03:55:30 7-GSC 837 82 9,8 O 3 04:12:45 8-GSC 837 606 9,4 O 3 04:24:45 9-GSC 837 40 8,8 O 3 04:32:50 6-GSC 837 442 9,9 E 1 04:37:25 7-GSC 837 82 9,8 E 2 04:50:30 8-GSC 837 606 9,4 E 3 04:56:30 10-GSC 837 143 9,8 R 3 7th activity: Timing of Lunar features Emersion from the Earth Shadow See TABLE XII 8th activity: Monitoring of Lunar Transient Phenomena TABLE XIV LUNAR FORMATIONS ACTIVE DURING ECLIPSES Lunar Formation Date TLP 10 DIC 1685 Soil Redening Plato 17 AGO 1970 Pulsation 05 DIC 1881 White Spot over orange surface 12 JUL 1889 Brightning surrounded by the penumbra 23 MAY 1891 Brightening of circus and associated area Aristarchus 27 DIC 1898 Brightening 19 FEB 1905 Bright White Spot 04 AGO 1906 Brightening 07 OCT 1949 Brightening 25 FEB 1964 Brightening 04 OCT 1884 Bright White Spot lika 2nd mag. Star 08 ENE 1898 Darkening of all the area Tycho 15 AGO 1905 Brightening 01 ABR 1912 Bright white spot affecting shape 07 NOV 1919 Only visible the radiation crossing Longomontanus. Proclus 03 JUL 1898 Redening Dionysius 08 ENE 1917 Bright spot in the umbra inmersión Grimaldi 25 JUN 1964 White trail in the western Limb TABLE XV ELGER SCALE OF ALBEDOS Albedo Toponym 0,0 Dark Shadows. 1,0 Darker Points of Grimaldi and Riccioli. 1,5 Interior of Boscovich, Billy and Zupus. 2,0 Soils of Endymion, Le Monier, Julius Caesar, Crüger and Fourier. 2,5 Interior of Azout, Vitruvius, Pitatus, Hippalus and Marius. 3,0 Interior of Taruntius, Plinius, Teophilus, Parrot, Flamsteed and Mercator. 3,5 Interior of Hansen, Archimedes and Mersenius. 4,0 Interior of Manilius, Ptolemaeus and Guericke. 4,5 Surface around Aristillus and Sinus Medii. 5,0 Walls of Arago, Lansberg, Bullialdus and surfaces surrounding Kepler and Aristarchus. 5,5 Walls of Picard, Timocharis and radiations of Copernicus. 6,0 Walls of Macrobius, Kant, Bessel, Mösting and Flamsteed. 6,5 Walls of Langrenus and Theaetetus 7,0 Soils of Theon, Ariadaeus, Bode B, Wichmann and Kepler. 7,5 Soils of Uckert, Hortensius and Euclides. 8,0 Walls of Godin, Bode and Copernicus. 8,5 Walls of Proclus, Bode A and Hipparchus C. 9,0 Soil of Censorinus, Dionysius, Mösting A and Mersenius B and C.
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